Space and rare Tupolev Tu-204 ROSCOSMOS Landing on a frosty winter day.

RA-64045 Tu-204-300 ROSCOSMOS COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTER. Tu-204/214 is a Soviet and Russian medium-range narrow-body passenger aircraft, developed in the late 1980s - early 1990s at the Tupolev Design Bureau to replace the Tu-154 passenger aircraft on airlines. Designed for 164–215 passengers and a flight range of 4200–5920 km. Produced since 1990 at the Aviastar-SP plant in Ulyanovsk, and also since 1996 at the S.P. Gorbunov KAPO in Kazan (modification of Tu-214). The Tu-204 uses Russian PS-90A engines, it uses a fly-by-wire control system, a fully responsible electronic digital engine control system (FADEC), supercritical wing profiles, equipment units with digital computers and other innovations not used on previous generations of aircraft.
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